Nov18Written by:slhilbert
11/18/2008 7:47 AM 
With DNN 5 RC2 coming out last week the general public finally has the ability to get hands on with the latest version of Dotnetnuke. I downloaded and istalled it this weekend for my first hands on experience with it.
Here is a quick list of items I noted while taking quick run through it.
- Install and Setup went without a hitch and was painless. I did notice a few changes in the wizard, but nothing major.
- We now have the ability to Deny roles and users when assigning permissions. This is something that I have written into a number of modules on my own over the years.
- Modules support Web Slices in IE8
- Modules that were once only available to people with Administrator access are now available to to be dropped on pages. One of these modules is called "Tabs" which I think should really be titled pages.
- Support for Skin Widgets. I saw some Skin Widget stuff at OpenForce08. Very cool! Basically, they allow you better control over the skin for formatting and SEO type work.
- The Module Install, Skin Installer and Authentication Provider installer have been all placed in one nice area called, "Extensions".
- The Icon set has been updated and looks much newer.
- The ability to setup notifications so DNN will let you know about Updates to your site features.
- You can enable/disable the "Remember Me" option when logging in.
- Seemed must faster in my development enviroment
I am looking forward to digging in deeper but that is what I saw just by spending a few minutes with it on Sunday.